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1 . j j i i j j I j , j 1 J i j J I I I I I I I WESTERN CRACKS NAMED 1 Wise Counsellor and In Memoriam Are to Race at Empire City. Nominations for the Stakes at Yonkcrs Track Hold Out Promise for the Best Sport in All Its History. 4 NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 31. If the quality of the entries received to date for the stakes of the Empire City Racing Association, due to close on Friday of this week, may be taken as a guide to the character of the meeting to te held at the Yonkcrs course next July, superb sport is in prospect for those who have found pleasure in visiting the pretty course, of which James Butler is president, Secretary Schaumburg was elated at the presence of the crack western colts Wise Counsellor and Worthmore in" the Empire City Derby and the good four-year-old In Memoriam in the Empire City Handicap. All that Eastern turf devotees know of this distinguished trio has been through their performances in the West Few horses have a more romantic history than that of Wise Counsellor, whose dam was sold for 00 when she was carrying him. Wise Counsellor won some of the best races in the West and was sold for ,000. He is one of the most talked of three-year-olds in the country and cannot fail to be a great drawing card for Empire City, The same is true of In Memoriam, the conqueror of Zev. It will be his first visit to the East; also there may be a renewal of hostilities between the sons of McGee and The Finn over the Yonkers course. Those horsemen who have not already entered their horses for the Empire City stakes have little time to spare in forwarding nominations to the offices at 2030 Broadway. OFFERINGS FOR MEETING. The stakes for three-year-olds and over are the Empire CitJS Handicap, ,000 added; Yonkers Handicap, ,000 added; Mount Vernon Handicap, ,000 added ; Fleetwing Handicap, about three-quarters, ,000 added ; Mount Kisco Stakes, ,000 added ; Melrose Stakes claiming, ,000 guaranteed, and Arrow Stakes, about three-quarters, ,000 guaranteed. Those for three-year-olds follow: Empire City Derby, ,000 added ; Knickerbocker Handicap, ,000 added, and Tarry town Slakes claiming, ,000 guaranteed. For two-year-olds: The Eastview Stakes, 0,000 guaranteed; the Whirl Stakes, ,500 guaranteed ; Demoiselle Stakes fillies exclusively, ,000 guaranteed ; Wakefield Handicap, ,000 guaranteed ; Frivolity Stakes claiming, ,000 guaranteed, and the Sprightful Stakes claiming, ,000 guaran-1 teed.
